Leica X1 Review: Digital Photography Review

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Leica X1 Review

If there’s been one welcome development in 2009, it’s the rise of relatively compact cameras with large sensors (i.e. APS-C, or the smaller Four Thirds size). For a long time Sigma seemed to be the only company willing to take a gamble on there being a ge

via DPReview: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/LeicaX1/

Of course the X1 is still a Leica, and so will not by any means be cheap, which means it’s going to have to deliver some pretty compelling results to persuade the less-emotionally driven buyer to hand over the wallet-slimming sum of money required to own one. So let’s take a close look to see what it can do, and find out whether it succeeds in this goal.